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What a 1.5-million-year-old face reveals about early human migration

Learn how a digitally reconstructed 1.5-million-year-old fossil from Ethiopia is reshaping ideas about what early human ...

This 1.5-Million-Year-Old Human Face Is Rewriting Human Evolution

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...
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Out of Eden Walk: The origin story of the human species is still being written

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...
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Million-year-old sea crossing near ‘Hobbit’s’ island rewrites early human history

More than a million years ago, early human relatives crossed an enormous sea to reach the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The discovery pushes back the record of human migration in Southeast Asia and ...
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Ancient lead exposure may have helped early humans evolve language and intelligence

Long before factories, mines, and cars filled the air with pollution, our distant ancestors were already living with a silent toxin: lead. A groundbreaking study reveals that hominids — from early ...